Editors and Viewers

Editors: An editor is what you use to manipulate a text file, such as program code or a batch script.

Command:

• emacs: Programming text editor. Extremely extensible and configurable by advanced users. The default version requires X Forwarding but you can use the -nw (no windows) option to avoid this.

• vi, vim, gvim: Visual text editor. Only gvim requires X Forwarding

• nano: GNU text editor with command-line interface.

Image and Document Viewers and Editors: These tools are used to display images and documents in formats more complex than ASCII text, such as PDF, HTML, and .CSV files. Most of these tools require X Forwarding.

Command:

• firefox: Web browser. View HTML files.

• evince: View PDF (Adobe’s Portable Document Format) files.